Windows 7 in virtualbox license

My own opinion only then, with no guarantees: IMHO if you have bought the OEM version explicitly to run on your "virtual hardware" then that is also ok.

The theory being that I treat virtual hardware like any other hardware for the purpose of being bound to a license. Microsoft may object, saying they only intended the license to be bound to physical hardware: except they also want you to pay extra money to run on virtual hardware, which I see no justification for unless MS also consider a virtual PC to be a separate PC separate hardware for the purpose of licensing, otherwise the host license would be sufficient.

I should hasten to add that I formed my opinion after reading the XP license. I do not currently have a Vista or Win7 VM and so I have not checked the license terms of the more recent Windows versions. I'm assuming this has carried over to Win7. It's sold with your hardware PC, Laptop. Next, create a virtual hard disk for your virtual machine. Select the position where your virtual disk file will be created and designate the size of your virtual disk. A Windows 7 virtual machine is created and you can see it on the VirtualBox Manager window.

It is noted that your virtual machine just created is not installed operating system, therefore, you need to install an operating system for it. In the above step, you have just declared a virtual machine on the VirtualBox. Now, you need to install an operating system for it.

OK, at this time, the operating system starts being installed. If you are familiar with the installation of windows operating system, this is very simple. The license that applies to the VirtualBox base package is perpetual and cannot be taken back unless you violate the license. Even if Oracle were to change the license again, this would only affect future versions, and anybody still in compliance would still be permitted to redistribute the existing VirtualBox code under the terms of the GPLv2.

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